Re: Proposal: Rename the probability forum as \'Statistics\'
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I feel that the term 'statistics' is a far wide ranging term and more descriptive term that perfectly describes the nature of many questions that are asked in this forum. 'Probability' is just a subset of 'statistics'.
What do you think?
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Probability theory and statistics are actually opposites. In statistics, we are given a set of observed outcomes from which we attempt to estimate a probability distribution function. In probability theory, we are given the probability distribution, and we are to compute the probability of specific outcomes.
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